Re: Can anybody tell me how to send HTML-format mail in gnus

[Lennart Borgman (gmail)]

Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Let me try a (rather) short explanation.
> >
> > Maybe I can say that it is about organizing things creatively. Math is 
> > one example. It can be very easy to use, but inventing some parts of it 
> > was not. The power is at the hand of both skilled and unskilled users 
> > (some of them making bridges, aeroplanes and atom bombs). They get that 
> > power from the seed planted with creative thinking about some seemingly 
> > difficult problems. That seed growed up as math.
> >
> > You do not have to be a genius to use math, but the invention of it was 
> > surely an amazing thing.
> >
> > Math is a powerful tool for thinking. Yet it can be very easy to use. 
> > The secret behind that is the organizing of thinking that math made 
> > possible.
>
> Sorry, Lennart, but this is not an explanation, either.

I tried, Eli, but it is obviously not an explanation for you. So I have 
maybe a hard time to understand how to explain things to you.

> If you can explain how to make a
> tool with thousands of buttons easy to use, please do.  For starters,
> how does one decide _easily_ which sequence of the thousands buttons
> to press?

Just show the important buttons more clearly.

That is the way math does it.

> And btw, I don't agree that math can be very easy to use (although I
> use it every day).

If you frame the system where you use it clearly enough I think it is 
easy. The difficult thing is more the system boundaries.